From this episode…
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite” – This line from William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” inspired the title of Aldous Huxley’s book “The Doors of Perception”, which in turn inspired a young UCLA Film School student named James Douglas Morrison to name the band he was forming with his then mere-acquaintance Ray Manzarek, ‘The Doors’. And the rest, they say, is history. Although it is much more than that, because The Doors quite literally MADE history.
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